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Battery-less technology evolved to replace battery technology. Non-volatile memory (NVM) based processors were explored to store the program state during a power failure. The energy stored in a capacitor is used for a backup during a power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 SatyaJaswanth Badri , Mukesh Saini , Neeraj Goel

The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Xuming Chen , Gourav Datta , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies promise memory speed byte-addressable persistent storage with a load/store interface. However, programming applications to directly manipulate NVM data is complex and error-prone. Applications…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Pradeep Fernando , Irina Calciu , Jayneel Gandhi , Aasheesh Kolli , Ada Gavrilovska

Emerging non-volatile memory technologies (NVRAM) offer alternatives to hard drives that are persistent, while providing similar latencies to DRAM. Intel recently released the Optane drive, which features 3D XPoint memory technology. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Pradeep Subedi , Philip E. Davis , J. J. Villalobos , Ivan Rodero , Manish Parashar

HPC as a service (HPCaaS) is a new way to expose HPC resources via cloud services. However, continued effort to port large-scale tightly coupled applications with high interprocessor communication to multiple (and many) nodes synchronously,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yehonatan Fridman , Re'em Harel , Gal Oren

Several emerging non-volatile (NV) memory technologies are rising as interesting alternatives to build the Last-Level Cache (LLC). Their advantages, compared to SRAM memory, are higher density and lower static power, but write operations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Carlos Escuin , Pablo Ibañez , Teresa Monreal , Jose M. Llaberia , Victor Viñals

The design of the buffer manager in database management systems (DBMSs) is influenced by the performance characteristics of volatile memory (DRAM) and non-volatile storage (e.g., SSD). The key design assumptions have been that the data must…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Joy Arulraj , Andy Pavlo , Krishna Teja Malladi

Advances in storage technology have introduced Non-Volatile Memory, NVM, as a new storage medium. NVM, along with Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Solid State Disk (SSD), and Disk present a system designer with a wide array of options…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shahram Ghandeharizadeh , Sandy Irani , Jenny Lam

The increased memory demands of workloads is putting high pressure on Last Level Caches (LLCs). Unfortunately, there is limited opportunity to increase the capacity of LLCs due to the area and power requirements of the underlying SRAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Apostolos Kokolis , Namrata Mantri , Shrikanth Ganapathy , Josep Torrellas , John Kalamatianos

The advent of non-volatile main memory (NVM) enables the development of crash-consistent software without paying storage stack overhead. However, building a correct crash-consistent program remains very challenging in the presence of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Xinwei Fu , Wook-Hee Kim , Ajay Paddayuru Shreepathi , Mohannad Ismail , Sunny Wadkar , Changwoo Min , Dongyoon Lee

High performance computing (HPC) applications have a high requirement on storage speed and capacity. Non-volatile memory is a promising technology to replace traditional storage devices to improve HPC performance. Earlier in 2017, Intel and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Kai Wu , Frank Ober , Shari Hamlin , Dong Li

DRAM-based main memories have read operations that destroy the read data, and as a result, must buffer large amounts of data on each array access to keep chip costs low. Unfortunately, system-level trends such as increased memory contention…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Justin Meza , Jing Li , Onur Mutlu

NVMe(Non-Volatile Memory Express) is an industry standard for solid-state drives (SSDs) that has been widely adopted in data centers. NVMe virtualization is crucial in cloud computing as it allows for virtualized NVMe devices to be used by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yiquan Chen , Zhen Jin , Yijing Wang , Yi Chen , Hao Yu , Jiexiong Xu , Jinlong Chen , Wenhai Lin , Kanghua Fang , Chengkun Wei , Qiang Liu , Yuan Xie , Wenzhi Chen

NVM is used as a new hierarchy in the storage system, due to its intermediate speed and capacity between DRAM, and its byte granularity. However, consistency problems emerge when we attempt to put DRAM, NVM, and disk together as an…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Guoyu Wang , Xilong Che , Haoyang Wei , Chenju Pei , Juncheng Hu

Embedded machine learning (ML) systems have now become the dominant platform for deploying ML serving tasks and are projected to become of equal importance for training ML models. With this comes the challenge of overall efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Ahmet Inci , Mehmet Meric Isgenc , Diana Marculescu

We firstly suggest new cache policy applying the duty to delete invalid cache data on Non-volatile Memory (NVM). This cache policy includes generating random data and overwriting the random data into invalid cache data. Proposed cache…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Na-Young Ahn , Dong Hoon Lee

Modern computing systems are embracing non-volatile memory (NVM) to implement high-capacity and low-cost main memory. Elevated operating voltages of NVM accelerate the aging of CMOS transistors in the peripheral circuitry of each memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Shihao Song , Anup Das , Onur Mutlu , Nagarajan Kandasamy

The increasing use of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) in computer architecture has brought about new challenges, one of which is the write endurance problem. Frequent writes to a particular cache cell in NVM can lead to degradation of the memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Keshav Krishna , Ayush Verma

Modern computing systems are embracing hybrid memory comprising of DRAM and non-volatile memory (NVM) to combine the best properties of both memory technologies, achieving low latency, high reliability, and high density. A prominent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Shihao Song , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy

Modern enterprise servers are increasingly embracing tiered memory systems with a combination of low latency DRAMs and large capacity but high latency non-volatile main memories (NVMMs) such as Intel's Optane DC PMM. Prior works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sandeep Kumar , Aravinda Prasad , Smruti R. Sarangi , Sreenivas Subramoney